The Department of the Interior plans to “imminently” fire at least 2,000 employees across the agency, including hundreds of people working at the National Park Service, the agency revealed in a Monday legal filing.
The department is prepared to lay off at least 189 people across the Park Service’s Northeast, Southwest, and Pacific West regional offices alone, according to the filing. Those regional offices oversee dozens of iconic parks including Yosemite National Park, Joshua Tree National Park, Acadia National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The NPS office that oversees the Chesapeake Bay recovery efforts would lose six of its 10 employees under the Interior Department’s proposed plans.